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GANN TIMER

A REVERSAL SYSTEM BASED SOLELY ON TIME

GANN ANGLES, monthly newsletter using the technical methods of W.D. Gann since 1983, recently introduced GANNTIMER, a mechanical trading system utilizing TIME rather than price. We are all familiar with trend following and mechanical trading systems that include traditional cycles and wave analysis as integral components but this is an innovative use of TIME as a stand-alone reversal system.

GANNTIMER evolved from a monthly feature in GANN ANGLES called "180 Degree Dates" that was based on a simple Gann principle, that a change of trend occurs at the "Midpoint in Time" from a major high or low. It's become almost a given that 50% retracements in PRICE are important stopping places but Gann believed that TIME also has support and resistance at the 50% level. He called it the Midpoint in Time, or "180 degrees", or Days from a significant high or low. That's 26 weeks, 6 months from a major high or low and research, application and experience have proved - that Gann's principle is correct. Trend changes really do occur at this pivotal time period. Eight years of tracking and trading "180 Degree Dates" in GANN ANGLES has proven its worth.

GANNTIMER began with 180 calendar day projections and grew into a computerized date projection program that generates twenty daily dates and ten weekly dates from each major high and low in 25 commodities. It's a reversal trading system based solely on TIME. It applies the broader Gann geometric Time Principle which states that trend changes from extreme highs and lows occur ad Divisions of 360 degrees.

360 divided by 2 = 180
360 divided by 3 = 120, 240, 360
360 divided by 4 = 90, 180, 270
360 divided by 5 = 72, 144, (288)

The GANNTIMER Trading System utilizes DAILY Time divisions of 360, with tabulated counts from highs and lows in both Calendar AND Trading days. For example, 180 trading days(TD's) is 252 calendar days (or CD's). Eight years of experience with the "180 Calendar Day" feature shows that at swing highs and lows, both 180 CD's AND 180 TD's can "cluster" at one moment in Time. Of course, it can be ANY combination of divisions of 360, such as 90 TD, 180 CD and 144 TD. The more dates that coincide or "cluster" on a single date, the stronger the ensuing reversal will be.

In all, using both calendar and trading day counts, there will be a total of 20 Daily Time counts generated from each swing High and Low date. But that's not all. WEEKLY 360 division date projections will be overlaid on the daily projections. Because weekly clusters occur infrequently, when they do, they add a third dimension to the already dynamic Daily clusters.